Meson thermal masses at different temperatures

Abstract

We determine the ground state meson masses at low temperature using simulations with $2+1$ flavours of improved Wilson-clover fermions. Subsequently we study the effect of increasing the temperature of the hadron gas, including the transition to the quark-gluon plasma, as well as the restoration of $SU(2{)}_A$ chiral symmetry. We use the FASTSUM anisotropic, fixed-scale Generation2L ensembles and consider mesons with light, strange and charm content.

9 pages; 4 figures; contribution to the 38th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, 26th-30th July 2021, Massachusetts Institute of Technology